NWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship (Vancouver version)

The NWA Vancouver Canadian Heavyweight Championship was the Vancouver, British Columbia version of the NWA Canadian Heavyweight title. It was the top singles title in Vancouver-based NWA All-Star Wrestling from 1982 until 1985, when the promotion withdrew from the NWA; the title was then renamed the UWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship (for its fictitious sanctioning body, the Universal Wrestling Alliance) and served as a secondary singles title until 1989.^[1]

Title history

Key

No.	Overall reign number
Reign	Reign number for the specific champion
Days	Number of days held

No.	Champion	Championship change			Reign statistics		Notes	Ref.
		Date	Event	Location	Reign	Days
	NWA Vancouver Canadian Heavyweight Championship
1	Silvano Sousa	May 1982	NWA All-Star show	British Columbia	1	N/A	Claims to have beaten Angelo Mosca for the Championship
2	Al Tomko	May 31, 1982	NWA All-Star show	Vancouver, BC	1	112
3	Mr. Pro	September 20, 1982	NWA All-Star show	Vancouver, BC	1	56
4	Moose Morowski	November 15, 1982	NWA All-Star show	Vancouver, BC	1	126
5	Igor Volkoff	March 21, 1983	NWA All-Star show	Vancouver, BC	1	N/A
6	Al Tomko	May 1983	NWA All-Star show	British Columbia	2	N/A	Awarded title after Volkoff is injured on May 2, 1983; Snake Williams defeats Tomko on December 17, 1983 in Cloverdale, BC, but the title is returned due to outside interference
7	Moondog Moretti	February 20, 1984	NWA All-Star show	British Columbia	1	56
8	Al Tomko	April 16, 1984	NWA All-Star show	Vancouver, BC	3	30
9	Wojo Yawrenko	May 16, 1984	NWA All-Star show	Abbotsford, BC	1	N/A
10	Al Tomko	1984	NWA All-Star show	British Columbia	4	N/A	Awarded title when Yawrenko left the promotion
11	Sonny Myers	December 1, 1984	NWA All-Star show	Cloverdale, BC	1	N/A
—	Vacated	January 1985	—	—	—	—	Declared vacant after a match against Al Tomko
12	Elton Stanton	January 19, 1985	NWA All-Star show	Cloverdale, BC	1	N/A	Defeated Butch Moffat in tournament final; Gerry Morrow defeats Stanton around May 1985, but the title is returned because Morrow is not the scheduled opponent
—	Vacated	July 1985	—	—	—	—	Stanton was suspended
	UWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship
13	Al Tomko	October 10, 1985	NWA All-Star show	Cloverdale, BC	5	161	Defeated Moose Morowski
14	Mike Stone	March 20, 1986	NWA All-Star show	Victoria, BC	1	44
15	Al Tomko	May 3, 1986	NWA All-Star show	Cloverdale, BC	6	N/A
—	Vacated	1986	—	—	—	—	Championship vacated for undocumented reasons
16	Joe Cagle	September 6, 1986	NWA All-Star show	Cloverdale, BC	1	56	Defeated Pat Brady
17	Rick Davis	November 1, 1986	NWA All-Star show	Cloverdale, BC	1	31
18	J.R. Bundy	December 2, 1986	All Star Wrestling [Note 1]	Burnaby, BC	1	70	This title change aired on tape delay
19	Billy Two Eagles	February 10, 1987	All Star Wrestling	Burnaby, BC	1	39	This title change aired on tape delay
20	Timothy Flowers	March 21, 1987	NWA All-Star show	Cloverdale, BC	1	72
21	Jonathan Sayers	June 1, 1987	N/A	Burnaby, BC	1	5	This title change aired on tape delay
22	Bruiser Costa	June 6, 1987	NWA All-Star show	Cloverdale, BC	1	N/A
23	J.R. Bundy	1987	NWA All-Star show	British Columbia	2	N/A
24	John Tenta	August 1, 1987	NWA All-Star show	Cloverdale, BC	1	N/A
—	Vacated	1987	—	—	—	—	Championship vacated for undocumented reasons
25	Ole Olson	October 1, 1987	NWA All-Star show	Cloverdale, BC	1	3	Defeated Sweet Daddy Sampson
26	Sweet Daddy Sampson	October 4, 1987	All Star Wrestling	Burnaby, BC	1	363	This title change aired on tape delay
27	Ole Olsen	October 1, 1988	NWA All-Star show	Cloverdale, BC	2	N/A
28	The Olympian	N/A	NWA All-Star show	British Columbia	1	N/A
29	Pat Brady	N/A	NWA All-Star show	British Columbia	1	N/A
30	Steve E. Ocean	N/A	NWA All-Star show	British Columbia	1	N/A
31	Dan Denton	June 1989	NWA All-Star show	British Columbia	1	N/A
—	Deactivated	1989	—	—	—	—	Promotion closed

References

1. Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2006). Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.

Footnotes

1. All Star Wrestling was a television program for ASW that began airing on local BCTV television markets in the early 1960s.

External links

• Vance Nevada's Canadian Wrestling Results Archive
• NWA Canadian Heavyweight Title history (Vancouver) at Wrestling-Titles.com